Water-heater.



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Ck M. BAUSHER & A. c. MYERS.

WATER HEATER.

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CHARLES- MONROE BAUsHEE AND AMOS O'. vMYERS, OF GREENTOWN; OHIO.

WATER-HEATER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented oct. 3.o, 190e.

Application `filed December 28,1905. Serial No. 293.685.`

To all whom. it` may concern: t Be it known that we,l CHARLES MONROE BAUsHEE and AMosC. MYERS, citizens of the United States, residing at Greentown, in the county of Stark and-State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in VVater-Heaters, of which the following is a specification.

The invention "relates toy improvements in water-heaters and an object of the invention is to provide a compact water-circulating and hot-water-generating system of lar e heatingsurface in combination with a mo e of handling the y-roducts of combustion to best develop an utilize the energy of the fuel in the creation of hot water; to secure the equal or desired distribution of the heating-gases and cause them to travel close and constant contact with the heating-surfaces; to facilitate the circulation throughout the hotwatergenerating system; to ydecrease 'the danger from accidents; to facilitate cleaning, repairs, and renewals, and to arrange ballles in a form best adapted for securing the most perfect combustion and utilization of the particular fuel employed, and generally to secure a high degree of economy and efficiency in the construction and operation. v

A further object is to provide a more perfect combustion of the fuel employed and a more perfect utilization of the heat arising therefrom by means of a fire basket or box adapted to receive and contain the fuel and formed from a series of horizontal longitudinally-disposed water-tubes.

With these ends in view the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination Of arts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved waterheater having a portion of its side and end walls broken away for the purpose ofclearer illustration of the various features of construction; 2, a transverse sectional view of the same, Fig. 3, a detailed perspective view of a portion ofone of the manifold ends. Similar numerals of reference designate like parts throughoutall the figures of the drawings.

The improved heater consists of the manifold ends 1, whichy form the front and rear walls of the respective ends of the heater, and

a series of longitudinal horizontally-disposed tubes2 are interposed between and connect the semicircular tops 1a of the manifold ends 1 by having their ends entered and secured in corresponding openings in the inner wall of the manifolds 1.

The manifolds are preferably built or set within walls of masonry 3, forming the side and top walls of the furnace, and a second series of tubes 4 are arranged in a vertical bank and disposed between the manifolds in a similar manner to tubes 2, near the side edges of the manifolds and the inner surface of the side walls 3', above referred to.

A third series of tubes 5 are similarly interposed between and secured to the manifolds,

but are arranged to form a substantially U shaped longitudinally extending lire basket or box 6 just beneath and in front of the door-opening 7 and having the upper edges thereof substantially in alinement with the sides of said door-opening. The lire basket or box 6, as the name implies, is adapted to receive the fuel and contain the same while-being consumed. The tubes 5 form a grating extending longitudinally the entire length-of furnace and are adapted to afford free and perfect combustion of the fuel, and at the same time fuel is economized by presenting the large heatin -surface of the tubes in direct contact wit the live coals of the fire contained therein, and the smaller consumed coals are permitted to fall through the tubes 5 upon the grate-bars 8 beneath.

A receiving-pipe 9 is suitably secured to the front wall 10 of the manifold-front, bel neath the door-opening 7 thereof, and a discharge-pipe 11 is secured to the manifoldback near the upper portion thereof, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

The inner walls of the manifolds are provided with rims or flanges 12, provided with a series of openings 13, adapted to receive a series of bolts 14, (see Fig. 3,) passing through the outer walls of the same. o

In order to turn or deflect the flames passing up between the inner sides of the side walls and the tubes 4, baffles or deflectors 15 are built out or formed with said side walls, whereby the flames are turned and directed against and between the horizontally-disposed tubes 2, interposed between the semicircular tops of the manifolds. t

Having thus described our invention, without having attempted to `set forth all the IOO IIO

-ries of tubes connected to and interposed beforms in which it may be made or all the I modes of its use, `we declare that what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A water-heater, consisting of manifolds forming the front and rear ends thereof and provided with semicircular tops, walls of masonry built about said manifolds to form the top and sides of the heater, a series of longi-y tudinal horizontally disposed tubes connected to and interposed between said semicircular tops of said manifolds, a second setween said manifolds and arranged in vertical banks along the sides thereof, a third series of tubes interposed between said manifolds and arranged to form a substantially U-shaped longitudinally-extending nre-basket', and baffles formed with the side walls above said second series of tubes and adapted to direct the flames against and between saidirst-mentioned series of tubes.

2. In-a watereheater, the combination of manifolds forming-the front and rear walls thereof and provided with semicircular tops, walls built about said manifolds to form the top and sides of the heater, a series of hori- Zontally-disposed tubes interposed between said semicircular tops and-communicating with said manifolds, a second series of tubes communicating with said manifolds and arranged in vertical banks along the sides thereof, a third series of tubes communicating with said manifolds and arranged to form a substantially U-shaped longitudinally-extending iire-basket, and bailes formed with said side walls at the upper/portion of said vertical banks of tubes.

3. In a water-heater, the combination of manifolds forming the front and rear walls thereof and provided with semicircular tops, walls built about said manifolds to form the top and sides of the heater, a series of longitudinally-disposed tubes interposed between said semicircular tops and communicating with said manifolds, a second series of tubes communicating with said manifolds and arranged in banks along the sides thereof, and a third series of tubes communicating with said manifolds and arranged to form a substantially U-shaped longitudinally-extending fire-b asket.

n testimony whereof we have aflixed our signatures in presence of two subscribing wi tnesses.

l CHARLES MONROE' llAUSlllllt.

AMOS C. MYERS. Witnesses:

JOHN B. WITWER,

CHAs. S. Wisin. 

